Wartime History During early 1942, an Australian medical
unit established a war cemetery at this location. During the war and postwar, the Australian Army Graves Service consolidated battlefield graves to Bomana for permanent burial, including war dead from the Kokoda Trail, Battle of the beachheads at Buna, Gona and Sananada and elsewhere in Papua and Bougainville.

Today Bomana War Cemetery contains 3,823 Commonwealth graves from the Second World War, 700 of them unidentified. There is one non-war burial and one Dutch foreign national buried at Bomana. The cemetery is administered as a Commonwealth War Cemetery. Other Commonwealth War Cemeteries in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are the Lae War Cemetery, Bitapaka War Cemetery (Rabaul War Cemetery) and Samarai
Island.

Port Moresby MemorialThe Port Moresby memorial is a series of panels listing the names of those Missing In Action (MIA) in Papua.

British Prisoner Graves Bomana War Cemetery contains the graves of 436 unidentified British Army Artillerymen who surrendered at Singapore and became Prisoners Of War (POW)
of the Japanese and were transported to Rabaul then onward to Ballale
Island where they labored on the airfield until they died or were executed. Their graves are listed as 'Known Unto God" and a memorial plaque is located at the rear of the cemetery.